The pick of the round must be the game at Musgrave Park on Saturday night, when third place Munster take on fourth placed Glasgow Warriors. Both teams are level in the table on 56 points, defeat for either could leave the way open for fifth placed Ulster, just one point behind on 55, to leapfrog […]
Brian McLaughlin has named Stephen Ferris in his starting XV for the massive Heineken Cup quarter final clash with Munster on Easter Sunday (kick off 1.45pm). The inclusion of Ferris, who missed last year’s quarter final defeat to Northampton, will come as a major boost to McLaughlin. The Ireland flanker picked up an ankle injury […]
Congratulations to Stevie McReynolds who will captain the 2012 Ulster Junior team in the super interprovincial series. Coach Alasdair McKee would like to thank Rainey Old Boys for accomodating a game against their I XV last night at their Magherafelt showgrounds. Local club digital photographer Charles Henderson was their to get some shots fo the […]
Brian McLaughlin has included Stephen Ferris in his provisional squad for Sunday’s Heineken Cup quarter final against Munster at Thomond Park (kick off 1.45pm). Ulster remain hopeful the Ireland flanker will be available despite picking up an ankle injury in last Friday’s PRO12 win over Aironi. Mike McComish has returned to full training and has […]
Charity Cycle ride Moved by the events on Sports Relief one of our fellow Perennials Neil McConkey has come up with his own unique plan to raise some funds to add to the Sports Relief tally. He is planning to “Cycle in support of Ulster Rugby” during the rest of this season’s Heineken Cup campaign. […]
The Grosvenor girls went into scoring arrears early in the game. Momentarily their heads went down and the glimpsed perhaps for the first time in their season the possibility of defeat! That was the reality of their position. Well you could almost see that in the same split second they calmed themselves, reformed their offensive […]
In an absolutely superb final these two teams held no punches from the start. Enniskillen Collegiate produced the same tenacious ability to build from their own 10 meter line and work a try using every person on the ptich. Combining this with the superb individual skills of quite a number of players who can twist […]